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Their statement follows a glimpse earlier this week into a forthcoming book “Peril,” in which Bob Woodward and Robert Costa say Gen. Milley placed two separate backchannel calls to Peoples Liberation Army Gen. Li Zuocheng, including one just days after the Capitol riot.
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The book, by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, said Gen. Milley became so concerned about Mr. Trump’s mental state that he assembled senior military leaders and advised them not to carry out a presidential order to launch a nuclear strike unless he was there.
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